Ringtone Facts

Getting Ringtones on your AT&T Cell Phone is actually a fairly fast and easy process. In less than five minutes you can be getting ringtones on your own AT&T Phone. To begin downloading Ringtones just click on the AT&T/Cingular button above. You will then have the opportunity to enter in your cell phone number to get the ringtones sent directly to your phone. A quick text message will be sent to your AT&T cell phone and once you reply you will have access to thousands of great AT&T ringtones including ringtones from hundreds of different artists and entertainers.

Type of Ringtones

There are several different types of ringtones and while in the past not every AT&T cell phone supported the various Ringtones, nowadays AT&T phones are compatible with nearly every type of downloadable ringtone. Everything from realtones to music ringtones should work great on your phone. While it might not be that important any more to be aware of the different types of ringtones it can still be interesting to now what each ringtone or "tone" is really called. Monophonic Ringtones are the oldest ringtones known, simple beep songs with no vocals. While monophonic ringtones aren't very interesting compared to the newer polyphonic and music ringtones, they do serve their purpose. Most people still use monophonic ringtones (simple beeps) for their voicemail messages or text messages. It can be a pain to have an entire song play every time you recieve a text message.

In addition to monophonic ringtones, there are the much more popular and advanced polyphonic ringtones. Polyphonic ringtones are made up of multiple tones that are combined together to form much more advanced beats and sounds. Most carriers offer a few simple polyphonic ringtones with each phone to select from, but the ones available tend to be common, simple, and not very unique. In addition, polyphonic ringtones don't have vocals like music (Mp3) ringtones. Exploding in popularity are music ringtones which offer all the advanced sounds of polyphonic ringtones, but with actual singers. In the past most cell phones couldn't support complicated ringtone sounds with their speakers, however the newest generation of AT&T phones including the Motorola RAZRs and even the the more common AT&T cell phones offer support for music ringtones.